Yeah, the move to a Sunday has been rumoured for quite a long while now, I remember it being mooted when Chibnall did an interview many months ago about how he planned to make certain changes to the show.

I actually think it’s a good thing, and will help to stop it getting lost in the shuffle among Strictly and X-Factor and all the other Saturday night shows that are on in the autumn.

I actually think it’s a good thing, and will help to stop it getting lost in the shuffle among Strictly and X-Factor and all the other Saturday night shows that are on in the autumn.

For me that’s reason to have it on in the spring, but people of certain age seem to think it’s supposed to be on in the autumn, so… shrug

Airing on Sundays is a big change though. There’s an ineffable difference between Saturday night and Sunday night TV, especially when you’re a kid. Saturday night is big, exciting entertainment. Sunday is twee, chocolate box “family” dramas, boring stuff like Countryfile, Songs of Praise and Antiques Roadshow and the encroaching bed time of a school night.

Well I grew up watching the McCoy era so to me it feels like Doctor Who should be on Wednesday nights.

Honestly, I think the Sunday slot is probably for various reasons, but one of them is giving it a certain prestige - it’s when a lot of the BBC’s big high-profile shows get scheduled (like the current Bodyguard). And the schedules are less erratic and subject to time changes than Saturday nights.

Now that Doctor Who is moving to Sundays, it means the theme music will now signal to millions of children the end of the weekend. I still can't listen to the theme to Hart to Hart, or Tales of the Unexpected without feeling melancholic for exactly that reason.

Germany’s most popular, longest-running programme (a crime series) is always on Sunday nights. It’s not a bad day for this kind of thing; families tend to spend Sunday together, and can make a tradition of closing the day watching Who.

Is that Tatort, is that still on tv? German krimis were quite popular in the Netherlands in the 80s and 90s.

The Dutch absurdist sketch comedy show Jiskefet did a brilliant parody of Derrick. I am not sure how well it translates for foreigners though, Jiskefet is very Dutch. Part of it is making fun of how German sounds to Dutch people and I don’t think every word is correct German.

A blu-ray disc can hold 50GB, so you could fit five or six DVDs worth of SD material onto one blu-ray disc in 480i, which is what the BDA doesn’t want done. I can see their point; it would be easy for companies to pack a bunch of SD DVD transfers onto a blu-ray disc and pass it off HD, but it would be nice to be able to have full seasons of old tv SD series on a single disc. Or complete tv series in a single case.

You could make a similar argument for putting a band’s entire back catalogue on a single CD in mp3 format. You could do it, but no band ever has done it (as far as I know). Would there really be a market for it?